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“Imagining Deleuze’s Romanticism”

 NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism) 2025 Virtual CFP

We invite you to an exciting linked symposia that focus on key issues and questions around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters.

Hosted consecutively by Baylor University and Texas A&M University, the symposia build upon both institutions' substantial collections of 18th- and 19th-century archival materials and their commitment to creating accessible digital archives and scholarship.

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts for consideration in our upcoming issues. We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of creative arts and the English language from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines.

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

Call for Papers -- Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

17th January 2025

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play, whether as an end (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens 1944) or a reimaging (Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play, 2011). Games were ubiquitous throughout the period, hundreds of dedicated recreational spaces (museums, playgrounds, parks) were established, and a new cult of leisure took root that reshaped both public and private life.

READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK

“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)

“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)

“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)

CALL FOR PAPERS

British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) PGR & ECR Conference 
 
ROMANTIC (UN)CONSCIOUSNESS
 
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge: 4th-5th September 2025

Online: 12th September 2025
 
Keynote Speakers Include:

Dr Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London)

This panel seeks works investigating the tug between progressive and conservative ideals and influences on the Gothic genre, especially as they are expressed through the ways Nature and the environment are used and described.

This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.

The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area (formerly Eros & Pornography) of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at https://pcaaca.org. You may apply to the conference at https://sites.google.com/view/2025pcaconference/call-for-papers

The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.

Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by December 31, 2024.

Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century": Victorian Review Special Issue 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

The Seen and Unseen in Supernatural Literary Contexts of the Long-Nineteenth Century
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
15-17 November 2024
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

In the four hundred years since its invention in Renaissance Florence, opera has become synonymous with the grandiose, the excessive, and the melodramatic, yet it has only gained a foothold in the academy as an object of serious academic study within the past fifty years. Since then, however, an abundance of scholarship has yielded everything from formal musicological readings of operatic works to theoretical inquiries inspired by psychoanalysis into voice and performance. And topics like the relationship between opera and sovereignty in seventeenth century Italy and the appropriation of Wagner by the Third Reich underscore how opera has never been far from the political sphere in the Western world.